Storming the Keep

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Levels:	23 (18-30)

The Blackdagger Bandits are planning an attack on Neverwinter and must be stopped! Storm Cragmire Keep and kill Malus Blackdagger!

Description[]

Storming the Keep is a Skirmish set in the Blackdagger Ruins.

Basic Information[]

Skirmish Level: 23
Monster Level: 24
Minimum Level to queue: 18
Maximum Level to queue: 30
Quests related: No quests related to this Skirmish

Objective[]

Storm the Keep and Defeat Malus Blackdagger!

Summary[]

Journal Entry

"Use the siege tower to enter the keep, then fight your way to Malus Blackdagger!"

Steps[]

Talk to Harper Agent Xalliana
Drop the Siege Tower Gate
Storm Blackdagger Keep
Kill Malus Blackdagger
Take Your Reward!

Dialogue[]

Xalliana

Traven Blackdagger and his cutthroats must not be allowed to attack Neverwinter!

Player

Storm the Keep!

Xalliana

Finally some reinforcements who look like they can handle this mess!

We have managed to get a siege tower up to the bridge, but I can't get the troops to commit.

I need you to storm the Keep and kill Captain Malus Blackdagger!

Completion[]

Rewards

If completed during the Skirmish event: 1000
Bound [Lesser Scroll of Identification]
11 49

NPCs[]

Vendors

Gorun Pricebreaker

Enemies[]

Minion

Standard

Deathpledged (Gnoll)

Elite

Boss

Encounter[]

On your way to the final boss you need to fight a large number of enemies including the mid-way Boss, Jareth Grim. The end boss is Malus Blackdagger. It is a 4-7 minute long fight depending on the damage of your group. Malus' combat will cycle through a number of abilities and then repeat. They include the following:

Kick: Malus kicks the targeted party member pushing them back 20 feet and doing 300 - 400 damage. Malus will follow this up with a teleport to the target.
Slashing Frenzy: This is the most dangerous ability Malus does. He swings his swords in an AOE arc of 180 degrees in front of him dealing 300 - 1500 damage to anyone in the arc. Get out of the red area when you see it or block through it.

Malus will summon help at around 75% health. This includes one Elite and two Minion enemies.

Call to Arms[]

The Call to Arms: Storming the Keep event first ran from January 24th, 2014 to January 28th, 2014. It returned for a second run from November 27th, 2014 to December 1st, 2014.

Characters level 6 to 60 can queue for the skirmish. In addition to the skirmish queue, there is also a Sword Coast Adventures adventure, Storm the Keep.